Spell Checker for forms

[Anon]

Has anyone ever tried hacking a spell checker using PHP? I am looking into one that will take a textarea from a form and spell check it with the usual options for the user.

Thoughts? ideas? tips? tricks?

Thanks....Matt

[Anon]

just like we have PHP's function nl2br(); which converts all the \n's to <BR>'s. The same way you can write your own function that reads the entire script, and uses pattern matching to replace the very commonly miss spelled word like:
teh, travle, tahnks.. etc ..

and then you can use:
$correct_text = spellchecker($text);
echo "$correct_text";

but, i guess this list can grow really long, for having your own words. But, you can create an external file with all the words in, and the function reads the words from the file!

how about that?

[Anon]

Over just compile in aspell support. Check out http://www.php.net/manual/ref.aspell.php

Jack

[Anon]

Compiled aspell support and used one fo the examples from php.net but we are still getting an error when we try the line $aspell_link=aspell_new ("english");

any thoughts?